Greenacres kindergarten student has school bus mishap on first day of school ​​

Greenacres kindergarten student has school bus mishap on first day of school ​​

Student attends Cholee Lake Elementary

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Updated: 8:56 AM EDT Aug 16, 2017

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WEBVTT >> YOU READY TO GO BACK TOSCHOOL?REPORTER: 5-YEAR-OLD JOVANI ISAN ENERGETIC BOY WHO WAS LOOKINGFORWARD TO HIS FIRST DAY ATCHOLEE LAKE ELEMENTARY.>> HE WAS SUPER EXCITED.KINDERGARTEN.BRAND NEW SCHOOL, NEW FRIENDS.REPORTER: BUT WHEN CLASSES ENDEDON MONDAY AFTERNOON AND HISMOTHER WENT TO PICK HIM UP ATTHE SCHOOL, THERE WAS A PROBLEM.>> THEY TOLD ME THAT HE WAS SENTON A BUS WHERE HE WASN'TSUPPOSED TO BE.REPORTER: THE BUS DRIVER LETJOVANI OFF IN HIS GREENACRESNEIGHBORHOOD.HE SPENT MORE THAN AN HOURWALKING AROUND.>> MAINTENANCE FOUND HIMWANDERING AROUND THENEIGHBORHOOD CRYING.THEY WENT AHEAD AND GOT HIM INTHE GOLF CART AND IMMEDIATELYCALLED 911.JENNIFER DUPRE SAID SHE TOLD THETEACHER AND ADMINISTRATORS THATSHE WOULD PICK UP HER SON ON THEFIRST DAY AND HE WOULD RIDE THEBUS THE NEXT DAY ON OUT.JENNIFER DUPRE/MOTHER>> HIS TEACHER CALLED TO APOLOGIZE,BUT APOLOGIZING WOULDN'T HAVEFIXED IF MY SON WAS STILLMISSING OR WORSE.SHE ALSO TALKED WITH OFFICIALSFROM THE SCHOOL BOARD.AND SHE TOLD ME THAT WITH THISBEING A STAGGERED SCHEDULE WHEREHALF THE SCHOOL STARTS ONE DAYAND THE OTHER HALF START THEOTHER DAY, THAT THERE WASABSOLUTELY NO REASON THIS SHOULDHAVE HAPPENED.

On Monday, 5-year old Jovani was looking forward to his first day of school at Cholee Lake Elementary. "He was super excited," said his mother, Jennifer Dupre. But when classes ended in the afternoon and Dupre went to pick him up at the school, there was a problem. Jovani was not there. "They told me that he was sent on a bus when he wasn't supposed to be." Dupre said she told her son's teacher and school administrators that she would pick up Jovani at school on the first day of classes, then he would be a bus rider the rest of the year. The bus driver let the boy off in his Greenacres neighborhood. Dupre said he spent more than an hour walking alone in the area. "A maintenance found him wandering around the neighborhood crying," Dupre said. Dupre said the man called 911. A Palm Beach County Sheriff's deputy saw the mother's number on the boy's backpack and called her. Dupre said she wants to make sure this never happens again to any child. "His teacher called to apologize, but apologizing wouldn't have fixed it if my son was still missing or worse," Dupre said. The school principal and an employee at the school have also apologized. Dupre said she's not sure if she will send Jovani back to the same school.

GREENACRES, Fla. —

On Monday, 5-year old Jovani was looking forward to his first day of school at Cholee Lake Elementary.

"He was super excited," said his mother, Jennifer Dupre.

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But when classes ended in the afternoon and Dupre went to pick him up at the school, there was a problem.

Jovani was not there.

"They told me that he was sent on a bus when he wasn't supposed to be."

Dupre said she told her son's teacher and school administrators that she would pick up Jovani at school on the first day of classes, then he would be a bus rider the rest of the year.

The bus driver let the boy off in his Greenacres neighborhood.

Dupre said he spent more than an hour walking alone in the area.

"A maintenance found him wandering around the neighborhood crying," Dupre said.

Dupre said the man called 911.

A Palm Beach County Sheriff's deputy saw the mother's number on the boy's backpack and called her.

Dupre said she wants to make sure this never happens again to any child.

"His teacher called to apologize, but apologizing wouldn't have fixed it if my son was still missing or worse," Dupre said.

The school principal and an employee at the school have also apologized.

Dupre said she's not sure if she will send Jovani back to the same school.